[ohnonotthat]

No phones in sportsbooks is not enforced vigorously and if they start doing so after reading this thread walking 30 feet until you're outside the sportsbook sounds like a plan.

As to liquidity, Pinnacle pays out on the spot, as do several of the other large online books. Most charge a fee ranging from 10-35 dollars. (Actually Pinnacle's $35 is the only one I know of that's this high - the others are all $20 or less).

Barred from a Vegas sportsbook for placing bets that are nowhere near their limit on sides that will, in almost all cases, tend to help balance their books ?

- They probably won't bar you; they MIGHT insist on allowing you to scurry about town in one of their limos but be assured they will not bar you.

There is, however, one small problem.

The year is 2005; it will soon be 2006. We live in a time of a global economy AND that pesky internet thing.

Sportsbooks have computers too, and the days of the line "coming straight from Vegas" are over.

I have no figures to back this up - nobody does - but for every $1 bet in Vegas, my guess is $1,000 is bet online.

Add to this the fact that Vegas lines tend to be very "bland" AND the prevalence of -110 in Vegas (lol - u ain't getting -104 in the dessert, kid) and the plan definitely does have some flaws.

However (for those scoring at home that's two "howevers"; I am considering a "nevertheless" for my closing), as Mason pointed out in GT&OT, sportsbetting is a "no-ante" game, and as such there is no real downside to trying this idea.

Best wishes and good luck with its implementation.

Sincerely,

Chris